The Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat for the Biden administration's attempts to slash emissions at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming.
Steve Vladeck
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#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants certiorari in Moore v. Harper; will decide next Term whether state legislatures can override state courts on questions of state law where federal elections are concerned (the "independent state legislature doctrine"):
OK, but what are the specifics of this case? Is this case seeing if states are allowed to ignore election results, like quite a lot of Republicans want to do?
They’ll still insist on a :vote:
Supreme court just took up a voting laws case for next term :capitalist-laugh:
Got a link with details on that case?
Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck #BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants certiorari in Moore v. Harper; will decide next Term whether state legislatures can override state courts on questions of state law where federal elections are concerned (the "independent state legislature doctrine"):
https://supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/063022zor_5he6.pdf
OK, but what are the specifics of this case? Is this case seeing if states are allowed to ignore election results, like quite a lot of Republicans want to do?
https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1542526925557714944